Having owned 3 Porsche’s in the past I know which badge I would prefer on the bonnet. Also I would not put one cent, in the tosser Musks pocket.
Only quick to 60 fellas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_cars_by_acceleration wonder if that’s because they run out of power before a 14 of a mile lol
Folk who moan about lack of range and lack of charging stations seem to forget that the internal combustion engine has 120+ years of development behind it. There was a time when there were no fuel pumps every few miles, just farriers and stables. Battery technology is advancing rapidly, and so will charging networks. A medium sized car with a 500+ mile range on one rapid charge is not far away and it will almost certainly have a Tesla badge on it. Musk, for all his flaws, is one of the few people on this planet with the vision, drive and ability to make things happen and move the world out of the dinosaur juice-burning age, and it's happening - he is years ahead of everyone else. The big names still rolling out enormous lookalikey hydrocarbon burners need to pull their fingers out or they will be history. The arseholes that shorted Tesla shares, backed by the oil companies no doubt, deserves every dollar of loss they suffered, the greedy miopic twats.
Well to be fair the battery has ~120 years development behind it too. But I agree, the carbon age is coming to an end. I try to embrace E cars but I just can’t. Soulless, like computers.
Saw this project on another forum. Cheap motoring in a Porsche. The petrol engine in the Porsche was fucked so it was either a very expensive repair or the scrapyard.
Musk also has zero care for people and rules, would I suspect happily experiment on children if it advanced his aims and is as close to a bond villain (along with murdoch) there is today. He believes ethics and morals are for others and his snakeoil really does cure cancer.
I admit that if mine went big time pop, and I was facing a 10k bill, I’d seriously look at having an electric motor fitted just so I know that it will be future-proofed for fuel. I’d have to record the flat 6 sound and play it inside the car
If the service life of a normal car/van is say 15 to 20 years ,what is the service life of a electric car ? If you take bikes which historically really on the whole last far longer ,i would of thought 30 plus years with a bit of care ,how many years before a battery bike is worthless ?How many of you have a battery drill which is used daily etc that the battery last more than a couple of years, so i suppose that electric vehicles will be treated like phones etc and be disposable even when costing what they do .
My experience of a lexus hybrid was good, 13 years and 162000 miles with no obvious battery degradation but that may not be the norm
Indeed yes but the batteries get a similat hard time, I guess my point is toyota were happy to guarantee them for 100000 miles and I saw no issues up to 160000 - but thsts Toyota and Panasonic in an expensive option. I wonder how long Nissan Leafs last
